05/04/2023
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
May Calendar – Dave Webb, Program Chair
May 4: Melanoma Awareness Month – Berger OhioHealth
May 8: * Extra Community Kitchen
May 11: Tom Davis – Pickaway County Park District
May 18: Dr. Gregory Lam, Cardiologist
May 22: * Community Kitchen
May 25: Jarrod Burks, Ohio Valley Archeology, Inc.
June Calendar – Heidi White, Program Chair
June 1: TBD
June 1: * First Annual Euchre Tournament
June 8: Ohio Dept of Transportation to talk about electric cars
June 15: Blessings in a Backpack
June 16: * Golf outing at Pickaway Country Club
June 22: Trent Patterson – Pathways school
June 26: * Community Kitchen
June 29: David Crawford – Year in review
*extra events
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- Presiding: President David M. Crawford
- Prayer: Joe McNemar
- Piano: Ellery has returned! (Thank you Esther for filling in)
- Song Leader: Dave Webb “Home on the Range”, “Sidewalks of New York”
- Attending: (Drexel has official list) 48 today – Crawford, Nemes-Crawford, Spangler, Poling, Beavers, Palm, Ellis, Whitten, Mavis, McIlroy, Montgomery, McCrady, Halley, D.Wolfe, McNemar, R.Wolfe, Riegel, Hedges, C.Chamberlain, Elick, Canfield, Wilson, Schreiner, Duvall, B.Tootle, Lambert, Droste, K.Neff, Sneed, Young, D.Webb, Dailey, T.Chamberlain, Ankrom, B.Liggett, Reitano, T.Tootle, Rawlins, I.Webb, Rothe, C.Neff, Kaiser, E.Liggett, Fountain, White, Hooks, Mabe, Blanton
- Students: for the last visit of this school year from Teays Valley students – Pam Younkin introduced Lauren and Kayla. We wish you both success in college.
- Guests: Eric Liggett introduced his son Chase ; Michelle Blanton brought back Grant Davis
Announcements
- Charlie Hedges presented Ty Ankrom with his Paul Harris award
- Tony Chamberlain – Friday, June 16th is our golf tournament. Need teams, volunteers and donations. For more information, please contact Tony.
- Tom Duvall – Kentucky Derby Party here at Watt St. 5pm-7pm this Saturday. Sponsored by Dave Horning.
- Daryl Wolfe – Bonus Community Kitchen Monday, May 8th. Presbyterian Church on Mound. 4-5pm. We are serving 100 meals so need some help preparing.
- Two applicants have been approved by the board Grant Davis and Darlene Weaver!
- Carly announced there is a YMCA fundraiser May 19th at Rhoadhouse 56 with Jazz music
- District Conference update on 4-Way Speech Contest – Julia Weller from Logan Elm was the applicant sponsored by our club and placed third in the district contest. She will join us in June so we can be impressed.
SAA: Gary Montgomery
- National Day of Prayer
- When you cut your grass, do not put your clippings in the street – hazard for motorcyclists
- Birthdays/Anniversaries when you joined/Anniversaries
- Smallest flower in the world – watermeal
- Position of Arctic Circle changes every year – what is not a factor when it’s moving – fluctuation of the tilt of the earth
- Polar Bears are the largest land animals found in the arctic region, 8-9 feet for males, 7 feet for females. Size of newborn polar bear? Same as guinea pig
Scholarship Drawing: Tom Duvall was the winner of $32. The jackpot is $1,268 and it continues!
Program: Melanoma Awareness Month presented by Kara Valentine Davis, BSN, RN
- Kara is an Oncology Patient Navigator at OhioHealth Berger
- Kara is a 2007 graduate of CHS and went to Ohio State for her RN degree. After years at Ohio State and The James, she joined Berger
- This Saturday, 9am-noon at CHS will be OhioHealth Berger skin checks for the community
- OhioHealth CancerCall: 614-566-4321 if you were just diagnosed and need someone to talk with about options or connections
- Over 1,000 people are diagnosed every day with skin cancer
- 80% of skin cancers are Basal or Squamous cell cancer
- Face, head, neck, ears are most common places
- Risk factors: light skinned, red or blond hair
- Prevention – look for changes to moles, every 2 hours apply SPF 30, wear hat, sunglasses, avoid tanning beds and get regular skin check ups
- Radiation exposure changes DNA and can increase your risk for skin cancer
- Melanoma – deadliest form of skin cancer and is most curable when detected and treated early.
- Examine body front and back in the mirror, with arms raised, look on back of upper arms and palms, backs of legs and feet, spaces between toes and soles, back of neck and scalp with hand mirror
- SPF 30 sunscreen and don’t forget your lips and tops of your ears
- Kids burn more easily. Babies younger than 6 months should be kept out of direct sunlight.
- UV rays are around all the time, no matter what the season.
- Skin Cancer can be hereditary. Talk to your children and grandchildren.
- Breast and Colon are two of the most common diagnosed cancers. Age 45 is the new colonoscopy age. Please schedule your appointments, it can save your life.
- If normal habits change, it’s your bodies way of telling you something’s up.
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- In appreciation of this year’s speakers sharing their time & efforts, donations to Pickaway Pathways for Success will be made in their names.